Cogeneration represent the symbiosis of different processes reached through the use of “total energy” machineries. These integrated machineries, using a single source of primary energy, simultaneously produce electric (or mechanical) energy and thermal energy, reaching efficiency levels close to the 80%.
Thanks to cogeneration, it is possible to magnify the use of the percentage of potential energy contained in fuels, converting the fraction with higher energy content into valuable energy (electrical or mechanical) and recovering the fraction with lower energy content, which is commonly dissipated in atmosphere, making it available for different applications such as ambient heating.
Advanced cogeneration is to be meant when the heat recovery from exhaust gas is used to produce saturated steam, overheated steam or overheated diathermic oil.

Trigeneration

Trigeneration represents the natural evolution of an integrated cogeneration system, in fact using a single source of primary energy, beside the combined production of electrical (or mechanical) energy and heat there is the production of cold
The refrigerating production is based on the use of typical absorbing cycles exploiting the physical state transition of the refrigerating fluid in combination with the absorbing mean (typically Lithium Bromide).
So, to an high efficiency cogenerating system, a further energy cycle is joined with an efficiency, known as COP (coefficient of performance), comprised by 0,7 and 1,3, depending on working temperatures and technologies adopted to implement absorbers (single stage, double stage, direct exhaust gass injection).

Applications

The complete exploitation of mechanical and thermal energy offered by an endothermic engine has turned out to be particularly reliable in many industrial fields and in the tertiary sector.
Our experts and partners develop technical solutions aimed at applications in every sectors.
The solutions every day suggested to improve plants efficiency are, in addition to standard cogeneration with total recovery of exhaust gas thermal energy, trigeneration, steam production, overheated diathermic oil production.
The main fuels employed are natural gas and biogas